2008-08-27 15:04 CEST. As you can guess I haven't been minding this site a lot, as I spend most of my time writing the blog and other articles. For this reason I'm going to try slimming down the content of this site, so that it doesn't feel too stale. The first casualty has been the old Mac OS X software page I had: I found there was at least one link for a dead software, and that was certainly not good; instead of that, you can now find the software for OSX I'm using on Delicious, directly out of my bookmarks.

2007-11-17 15:52 CET. After almost an year, a new update on the site. As you might or might not have read on my blog, I've moved both the blog and the site on a new box, this time hosted in a proper datacenter with a good connection. For this reason I've moved all the downloads for all the projects back to this site, rather than leaving them on digilander to be downloaded.

2007-02-14 02:08 CET. Now that ruby-hunspell built fine and passed regression tests when built with Rust, I've opened a project on RubyForge, and added the reference on my site. Feel free to look at it and join the mailing list as soon as it's ready.

2007-01-12 13:29 CET. I've removed the Dead Packages List page, as I found there's already a way more complete project that aims to provide the same kind of information: Unmaintained Free Software.

2007-01-08 16:01 CET. With version 0.003 of ruby-hunspell, I fixed building with newer versions of cmake, but I didn't fix installation, that also changed quite a bit between versions. Version 0.004 corrects that so it can be installed and used properly again.

2006-12-31 14:44 CET. As recent versions of cmake seems to be unable to compile my 0.002 snapshot of ruby-hunspell, I've uploaded a 0.003 that cleans up the build, and removes the need for a FindRuby.cmake module with the xsource distribution.

2006-09-06 02:06 CEST. So, during August I was forced offline, but I was able to work a bit at least on ruby-hunspell. Finding myself limited with the idea of writing the bindings function by function, I've used the same generator script I'm using in rubytag++ and improved it so that it's more flexible. The result is version 0.002 of the Hunspell bindings, that now also binds the parsers that are shipped with Hunspell itself.

2006-07-21 16:44 CEST. After half a day of working on it, a new, almost rewritten, bugzilla client plugin is available! :) This version drops the need for wget entirely, as http-access2 is able to access also self-signed SSL pages now. It also features thew new zilla command that provides access to the list of configured Bugzilla sites, allowing to add, remove and list them. On the rbot plugins page you can find also a database with a few bugzillas already available for use.

2006-07-28 11:57 CEST. Missing one of Genbot's features on #gentoo-dev, and thanks to markey for the suggestion, I've updated the rbot hunspell plugin to listen for generic messages, and identify when users uses a bad wrod(sp?) to get the spelling :)

2006-07-21 08:53 CEST. New release of unieject, version 5.3.2 improves compatibility with classic Linux eject by implementing the --traytoggle option. It also fixes some problems building on pure FreeBSD systems, like bashisms on the configure script and the requirement of gsed.

2006-07-15 09:19 CEST. Today is releases' day: I've added to the site the hunspell.rb plugin for rbot, that uses ruby-hunspell bindings to interface to the hunspell library, thus allowing a more advanced and faster (does not require process spawning) spell checker to be used.

2006-07-15 08:20 CEST. A new release of Gitarella is ready, with lots of bug fixes and display improvements, a graceful handling of exceptions and configurable logging support. It also make the code more solid by allowing escaping data when displaying it on the templates. The setup that was before handled in the global scope is being moved in its own class for proper handling. ruby-filemagic extension is now optional, although suggested, and log4r provides the logging facilities if presente.

2006-07-10 13:26 CEST. I've just added a new project to the projects page. It's ruby-hunspell, Ruby bindings for Hunspell spell checking library, that I'll use to add a new rbot plugin for spelling support (that would be a drop-in replacement for the ispell one).
Hunspell is an advanced spell-checking library that's based on MySpell checker for OpenOffice, and it's being used for OpenOffice itself in newer versions.

2006-07-07. I've addead a new version of the bugzilla.rb plugin for rbot. This version tries to handle HTTP connections a little better than before. By default it uses http-acces2 extension to get the data, but if that does not work (and often it is because of non valid SSL certificate) it relies on calling wget with the parameter to ignore the SSL certificates altogether. Improvements about this, so that it does not require to invoke wget at all are welcome.

2006-06-29 00:57 CEST. A new version of Gitarella is now released. This version has support for new views similar to gitweb and a few bugfixes for corner and not-so-corner cases. A full ChangeLog is available inside the code.

2006-06-25 02:04 CEST. I've added the first release of Gitarella to the downloads page for who wants to give it a try.

I'm a Gentoo Linux developer, serving now for two terms in the Gentoo Council. I worked before on multimedia software maintenance, KDE, CJK, Ruby and a bunch other areas, including some time as Gentoo/Alt project lead. I'm also author of a series of low quality software and utilities, like KNetLoad or unieject. I contribute to the xine project and libcdio.

Most of the utilities you find on my site are KDE based, and they can be found on the KDE apps page. Some of them are available through KDE's SVN access in playground and extragear modules. Others are available on SourceForge and BerliOS. A part KNetLoad, that has its part in KDE Bug Tracking System, the rest of the software is semi-supported if you write me.

You can find more about me by reading my blog on Planet Gentoo. You might also want to look at my wishlist (that's more or less a way to let the others know what I like or need most, but you're free to contact me if you want to donate something ;) ) or to my curriculum.

As I spend the most of my time on Gentoo Linux and Gentoo/Alt, I might not have time to maintain in the long run all the apps I'm listing here; most of them are just quick hacks and don't really need a lot of work, but there are things that might require a bit more. All the work is licensed under Free/Libre licenses (GPL, LGPL, BSD/X11), so you're free to fork it, or just take it over if you want to. The KDE apps already present on KDE's SVN just needs you to ask for commit access there, others might require other commit rights, if the applications are currently present on SourceForge or Berlios, just ask me if you want to collaborate. The projects not present on public repositories are available through GIT on this very same server.